October a bust, for blogging

It's been a crazy month, thus the lack of updates. On the week of the 18th, I moved from Chicago to my new home in Cincinnati, Ohio. After 15 years, the costs of living in Chicago became too much to bear. I love Chi-town and I really hated to leave, but them's the breaks.

I hope to be behind my own computer tomorrow, actually getting something done. Then I'll be able to upload pics from the Windy City Comicon. Yes, I moved out of Chicago one weekend just to return the next for the convention. It wasn't easy. But it's a good thing I did, because the show was a personal success and tremendous fun. Chris Neseman and Brion Salazar of Around Comics put together a really great show. I know it will be late but I'll try to throw together some kind of con report.

Johny Wadd pages

A few pages from Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here:

Windy City Comicon - Oct. 25

I'll be at the 1st Annual Windy City Comicon, in Chicago on October 25th. I'll be there selling sketches, The Guns preview book, prints, and other assorted comic related things. So stop on by!

I'm also accepting pre-orders for sketches to be picked up at the show. The pricing structure is as follows:

Sketches: 9x12, inks and grey tones, $30 first character, $10 each additional.

Commissions: 11x17, inks and greys, $90 first character, $30 each additional.

Prepay through PayPal or cash at show.

Contact me: dave@davedrawscomics.com

Wrecker and The Dude

No, it's not the newest buddy cop drama from NBC, just a couple of sketches I haven't posted before. Both were pre-orders from cons this summer.


Now that I look at it again, I realize that on the Dude piece, I could have filled in the upper left quadrant with a trippy smoke pattern. That would have been cool.

Cap sketch - Bucky Barnes

9x12 on bristol. A pre-order from the CGS SuperShow.

CGS SuperShow 08 Wrap-Up

Last weekend(yes, it's taken me that long to post this!) I attended the CGS SuperShow, the first annual convention hosted by the fine fellas at the Comic Geek Speak podcast. I had a fantastic time at the show. It felt more like a geek class reunion than a comic convention. I saw old friends, made new friends, sold a bunch of books, did some sketches, and stayed out far too late.

Rather than bore you with an entire convention recap here's a link to my post on the CGS forums, highlighting some of my favorite moments. Also, I took a ton of pics, here's a link to the ones I posted on my flickr account.

A few pics, to whet the appetite:

Mephisto defeats Dr. Strange

Pre-ordered commission from the Supershow.

CGS Supershow!

I'm headed to the CGS SuperShow tomorrow, in Reading, PA. If you're going, stop by, say hi, buy some books, a print or a sketch! Here's a quick scan of one of the pre-orders for the show:

Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here - Cover art

I'm drawing and inking the book Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here from Terminal Press. Written by the kickass Tony Fleecs. This is the cover I drew for it before San Diego. The finished version is colored by Narek Gevorgian. You can buy a limited edition numbered/signed print here.

Batman, Robin, and Nightwing

11x17, inks and markers on bristol.

San Diego Comic Con 2008 report

The Dial R Crew(l to r): Barry Miller, Dave Wachter(me), Michael Woods, James Andrew Clark, John Culjak, Pat Loika, Chris Maze

Another San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone. As always, it went way too fast, was extremely exhausting, and immeasurably fun. It was gigantic, it was crowded, it was the Mecca of comic fandom. For good or ill, there is no show like it.

WE SOLD OUT AGAIN! We completely sold out of the Guns of Shadow Valley preview book.

Jim passed out our submission package to a number of publishers and got some really encouraging responses.

I did nearly 100 head shots on the back of the books.

I found out the secret of the freight trains vs. San Diego.

I don't care what people say, this may not be only a comic book show, but there's more comic books than you can shake a stick at.

The absolute best part was seeing everybody again. It had been a long time for some, but it felt like we picked up right where we left off. Also, it was great meeting so many new faces that I can easily see maintaining strong ties with. I'm still so exhausted I don't have much else I can say about it right now other than what an incredible time I had.This report really sucks.
I uploaded my pics to my flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davewachter

Here's a bunch of them:

Starship Captains

Maze at work

Tony "mobliehome" Guagliardo
Superman

Terminal Press

Pat and Chris

Sketch for Chris

Star Trike

The Con Center

Jim and Chris

Chris and John

Tony FleecsSteve Bryant

People in Costumes:

Destroyer and The Creature from Krangro!

One, a Wizard World Chicago pre-order, the other, a late finish from the show, together they're two wild and crazy guys.